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. If parents have no claim on their children’s income, then the private benefit from producing a child may be smaller … ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents to children. …In this paper a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a …
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Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively …
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care and education policy goals. It is believed that young children, their families, and the community at large will … illustrate interconnections in our society. …
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-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …
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produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes … a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone’s income can be appropriated by its model. Only … people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at the bottom of the distribution of income specialize in surrogacy …
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In this paper debt policy in a two-period, two-sector overlapping generations model with Leontief technologies has been analysed. It has been found that debt, issued to transfer resources to the initially old, could be welfare improving in the new steady state for an economy which satisfies the...
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locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether or not to educate their children. The model therefore combines …
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Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
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, parents and children, while women helped their children. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/311.pdf]. …, Indonesia, before and after the tsunami. Children, older adults and females were the least likely to survive. Whereas socio …
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‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http …
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